Modernize Your Hybrid and Multicloud Data Architecture

Organizations operating across on-premises systems, multiple clouds, and regions often face data silos, stale batch-fed copies, fragile point-to-point integrations, and growing security and compliance complexity that can slow application development. Confluent presents Cluster Linking as a Kafka-based approach to hybrid and multicloud data integration, enabling byte-for-byte topic replication between independent Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud clusters while preserving event offsets and optionally synchronizing access controls. The capability is positioned for cloud migrations, database and warehouse modernization, mainframe integration, disaster recovery, and real-time sharing of business data across environments. It supports source-initiated links that can connect on-premises platforms to Confluent Cloud without exposing firewalls, as well as cloud-to-cloud links across providers and regions, with service accounts, API keys, ACLs, SSL, and offset synchronization used to manage access and security. Confluent argues that this centralized streaming architecture can reduce pipeline maintenance costs, improve resilience, simplify governance, and give teams faster access to real-time data, citing customer examples in banking and analytics.

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